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White Paper Co-op funds and vendor advertising support This white paper reviews various aspects of retail financial management and draws important lessons for small and mid-size retailers. It addresses a wide range of topics that impact a retailer's financial... [30 Jun 2008]
Co-op Financial Services' mail goes digital in £12m deal
News Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) has signed a £12m deal with Xerox to digitise its mail-sorting processes. The company, which brings together Co-operative Insurance, The Co-operative Banks and online bank Smile and is owned by the Co-operative... [15 Apr 2008]
Trade Promotions in the Sarbanes-Oxley Era
White Paper It also explains how to make sure your internal processes and controls and technology for capturing, tracking and analyzing co-op/MDF funds are up to this task. This webcast discusses what steps you need to take to achieve full compliance with... [10 Apr 2008]
Electric Co-op Operator Moves from NetWare to Windows 2000 Server for Speed, Reliability, Security, and $1.2+ Million in Savings
White Paper Georgia System Operations Corporation (GSOC), the largest electric cooperative operator in the United States, was suffering with a Novell NetWare environment that failed to provide the performance, reliability, and security that the company needed. [10 Apr 2008]
Virtual staff speed up bank queues
Case Study Co-operative Financial Services has automated a credit checking process to free up staff and help treat customers consistently. Joanne Master, business systems manager at Co-operative Financial Services, told silicon.com: "It doesn't matter how... [31 Aug 2007]
Co-op Group polls customers at the till
News Convenience store retailer Co-op Group is using its electronic point-of-sale (Epos) system to save money on customer satisfaction surveys. Co-op Group is one of the few retailers to add such a feature to date. [10 Aug 2007]
Web 2.0 generation expect work on their terms
News It's time for a new operating model; an IT care co-op is the solution. The UK's business leaders are being warned they must embrace flexible working and consumer technologies if they are to attract and retain the next generation of workers. [09 Aug 2007]
Co-op to axe 1,000 jobs in £100m efficiency drive
News Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) is to cut 1,000 jobs this year as part of plans to reduce operating costs by £100m by the end of June 2008 but will also boost investment in new technology. The next stage of development following the... [20 Jul 2007]
Retailers fill their baskets with tech
News Midlands Co-op has installed a supply chain management system from Aldata to manage orders, store inventory, replenishment, point of sale and payments. It's been a busy week for the UK's shopping giants - the Retail Solutions show in Birmingham... [07 Jun 2007]
Co-op Bank extends mortgage tech deal
News TE has provided Co-op Bank with a managed software support service since it entered the UK mortgage market six years ago - originally with TE acquisition Attentive - and now extends into hardware support and the provision of a mortgage sales portal. [27 Apr 2007]
How mobile is your corner shop?
Comment It's not before time for Co-op, Costcutter, Londis, Nisa-Today's, Spar and about 9,000 independent corner shops to start mining the CRM benefits of a loyalty card system, with other supermarkets years ahead of them.silicon.com Retail & Leisure [13 Apr 2007]
Co-op inks £100m extension to Xansa deal
News Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) has signed an extension worth up to £100m over the next five years to its outsourcing contract with Xansa that will result in more work being sent overseas to India. [02 Apr 2007]
Re:Viewing 2006: The year in retail and leisure
News Trials of fingerprint payments kicked off in Oxford's Co-op stores in March and the supermarket subsequently doubled the number of stores with the fingerprint payment tech in July. Chip and PIN. RFID. [18 Dec 2006]
Saraswat Bank Boosts Profit by 40%, Growth by 30% With Support From Centralized Banking Platform
White Paper Founded in 1918 as the Saraswat Co-operative Banking Society, the Saraswat Co-op Bank is the largest cooperative bank in Asia. Like many Indian banks, Saraswat's investments in IT were small before the country's economic liberalization process... [08 Dec 2006]
Co-op takes warehouse wireless
News Co-op is installing wireless scanning and product picking technology at its warehouse in Ipswich. East Anglia Federal Co-Op Society is spending £210,000 to install Vocollect's voice picking technology and Psion Teklogix's Workabout Pro handhelds... [14 Aug 2006]
